Abstract: A dynamic, context-specific power dormancy and management architecture for virtualized RANs that include a PHY layer on an expansion card. The architecture includes (1) a power control agent in a programmable environment on the expansion card that obtains data from subcomponents in the programmable environment on the expansion card, correlates the data to at least a first power control policy stored at the expansion card, implements the correlated first power control policy on the expansion card; and facilitates communication of the selected correlation data and/or raw data to a non-transitory computer-readable medium at a data center; (2) a Power Control Policy Function at the data center where data is obtained from vRAN infrastructure and optimized power control policies that may be shared with the vRANs are developed; and (3) an out of band management channel that allows for direct communication between the power control agent and the data center.

Abstract: A virtual assistant system (VAS) (102) supports call services (104), message services (106) and profile services (108) and interfaces to both a telephone network (114) and to a data network (116). The telephone network (114) may be the PSTN and/or another telephone network. The data network (116) may be the Internet, an Intranet or another data network in which communications are packet based. The call services (104) include call receipt services, call initiation services, conference calling services and other types of services in which calls are initiated, routed and/or completed and that are typically provided by a telephone company. The message services (106) include voice mail, email, Faxes, video mail, and other types of messages that include one or more types of media, e.g., audio or visual. The profile services (108) uniquely identify each subscriber and provide contact information for the subscriber. [All communications (email, voice mail, Fax, etc.